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Gol D. Sanji au where Sora was Roger’s daughter that no one but Roger’s crew, very close allies and judge knew about. Sora only told Sanji that she was Roger’s daughter and told him stories about the adventures she went on with them. Sanji’s childhood continues as canon up until the rock because Zeff recognises him as Sora’s son immediately and becomes extra protective of him since he believes that Sanji is the last of the Gol D. family since he doesn’t know about Ace. Sora was raised on the Jackson since her mom was out of the picture and was considered to be with Shanks and Buggy, so when Buggy pulls up to the Baratie he sees Sanji, and, since he’s a carbon copy of Sora, immediately recognises him and becomes like a helicopter parent but worse. Everything continues as canon up until Sabaody where Rayleigh pulls him aside and asks about his mother, to which Sanji says that she’s dead but refuses to say anything else.

Marineford happens as canon and Ace still dies, but Sanji is extra distraught since he learns that Ace was his uncle and is now dead. Sometime after the timeskip, sometime after Egghead, Sanji is kidnapped by the marines and is set to be executed since they found out that he’s Roger’s grandson. The announcement and lead up to the execution would play out like Warlord!Sanji except it’s everyone who knew Sora (Buggy, Shanks, Rayleigh, etc.) who shows up along with the Strawhat grand fleet and all other allies.

They manage to save Sanji with minor casualties but Sanji does lose an arm. I don’t imagine that there’d be any romance in this au, mostly just a lot of people being very protective of Sanji in a familial way but you’re welcome to change that!

Hey thanks, my heart is breaking. And I just wrapped up the other Gol!Sora. Horrifying. We're all freaks for pain here. Also just imagine, because Rayleigh is also blond, a Silvers!Sora. This hurts so much and is so long.

Anyway just Roger meeting Rayleigh and them setting off with Roger's precious little girl and gaining crew and steam and notoriety. She is adored and when her brothers come along they're all adored. She takes to sharp shooting. Sora and her rifle are to be feared.

I know you said you don't imagine any romance here but just for fun imagine Marco and Sora growing up with rival captains but being absolutely smitten with each other to their adults dismay. Constantly saying as they grow up if they don't get blessings they'll just run off and start their own crew. Roger genuinely wanting to kill White Beard sometimes for his son. White Beard wanting to do the same for Roger's daughter. Buggy, Shanks, Thatch and them all find this rather hilarious.

Then before Roger's execution, before he turns himself in, she's stolen away without a trace. Rayleigh and them cannot find her and Buggy and Shanks are distraught they're older sister is gone and it's rocking the pirate world Roger's daughter has disappeared without so much as a note. No ransom, no struggle.

Just gone. No one knows anything. Linlin would have made it obvious, as would have Newgate and Marco is clearly also distraught she's gone. There's nothing from Wano, hell even Garp doesn't know anything. The Vice Admiral looks genuinely confused why Roger and Rayleigh are asking him until he hears how she just vanished.

Then Roger goes to his execution, the crew disbands. Buggy and Shanks go their separate ways. Sora tells stories to her daughter. Hidden away in some wing of a North Blue kingdom. No one knows she's there, the man made sure of it. Her weapons stripped of her, stuck in medical ward of seastone doors and barred windows. She still drinks the poison to try to save her boys. Only saving the one.

Sora tells Sanji stories of the Grand Line, never making it to Laughtale to watch over her younger brothers, of Roger and Rayleigh and the crew. The rivals and Marco and the joy and freedom she had. Sanji looks at her with pure wonder in his eyes and soul. Then she dies. Then he's locked away. Then freed and stranded on a rock.

Zeff looks at him like he's a ghost, even well after their salvation from the rock. Then there's another man who does. Sanji recognizes him from the stories. Buggy immediately latches to him like a leech almost. Sanji kind of just accepts his fate. Being the last of the Gol D. line is a hell of a problem. He grows up, hiding every part of himself from those who don't know. He has a fantastic facade, just like his uncle. No one knows. As far as the world is concerned the Gol lineage is gone.

Canon happens, Sanji sets off with Luffy, sees Crocus who looks at him and Sanji knows about him, but if he's here, just like Buggy in the East Blue, it's better for the nod of acknowledgement before they're off again. He still breaks his back on Drum, meets Ace on the way to Alabasta, throws Crocodile for several loops. Canon stuff. Then on Sabaody, after he's done looking over Luffy, Rayleigh looks at Sanji and hides his reaction well enough that no one catches the hitch in his breath. At the bar Rayleigh steps outside with Sanji, no one follows them thanks to Shakky and Rayleigh just pulls the blond to him and holds him tight and Sanji holds on back.

"Sora, where is she?" Rayleigh asks after a moment, pulling from Sanji just to look at his face better.

"She died, thirteen years ago." Sanji answers. Rayleigh nods and pulls the kid back in for one last hug.

"She was as much my daughter as she was Roger's. You're my grandson just as his." Rayleigh says softly and Sanji nods before they go back in. Then they're scattered off Sabaody by Kuma. Ace dies in front of Luffy, protecting Luffy. Sanji is having a panic attack over the paper on Kamabakka. Sanji knows realistically he's not alone, he has Rayleigh and Buggy and Zeff, but he's the last again. If anyone finds out, it'll be worse. Because of Judge, because of Sora and Roger and Ace. Sins of the blood.

When the crew is back together Sanji acts as if nothing has changed, though Rayleigh seems to be letting a breath he was holding out at the sight of him. Then Luffy comes back and all hell breaks loose. But Sanji waves goodbye to his grandpa, and Rayleigh watches with Shakky as they depart, satisfied smiles on their faces. Shakky can notice the relief in her husband, knows the man wishes for more answers he won't get. She kisses his cheek and leaves him to watch the horizon.

Canon continues, no one notices anything until Zou when Cat Viper looks at him and laughs after they save the minks.

"Anyone ever tell you you look like Roger's daughter?" The mink grins at him.

"Roger had a daughter?" Nami asks with confusion making the mink laugh.

"A real gem of a pirate. She and Marco were besotted with each other, she was Shanks and Buggy's older sister, hell of a sharp shooter too!" Cat Viper smiles widely before frowning. "She disappeared shortly before Roger's execution. I don't think any of us ever recovered from her loss."

"I'm sorry for your loss." Sanji says before leaving the hut to feed the others. Then he goes with the Bege and Caeser. Thinking he could save his crew. WCI has the Charlotte family is fairly positive that the kids Judge presents are the children of Sora. Especially after they see Sanji. Judge disagrees, they are not Gol children. No one would have been foolish enough to kidnap her, those who knew of her at least.

During the escape Judge promises Sanji it's not over and Sanji's gut sinks like a stone. Nami and Luffy only hear about when he's snubbing Sanji's good traits as failures. His brothers and Reiju are mutated enough that even if it came out who their mother was nothing would happen to them. Sanji's pretty sure after this they won't come for him again.

In Wano, after the raid and the pact Nami and Brook ask Marco about Sora while Cat Viper points Sanji out to Dogstorm about the similarities. Marco looks genuinely taken aback they know about Sora and how much Sanji fucking looks like her.

"I never moved on if that's what you're asking." Marco frowns. "And after Ace, I think the government got what it wanted."

"Cat Viper said she just vanished, but there's hardly any record of her at all." Nami pushes and Marco stares.

"Buggy also convinced the world he died when he didn't so take what you see with a grain of salt, kid." Marco says before he leaves to catch a ride on the Red Force, asking Shanks if he knows of anything the cook of the Strawhats. He doesn't know but he remembers the first time he saw the kid's photo, how much it looked like his big sister. Marco nods before he goes back home to settle into retirement. Sanji settles into the lies easily, he's used to it after all.

Then after everything on Egghead, rescuing Bonney and kicking the elder and fighting Borsalino, it happens almost the same way it did to his mom. Sanji wakes to sea stone cuffs and chains, a sea stone cell and top Navy personnel looking at him like he's a rabid dog. Maybe he is with the way he thrashes. Then he hears discussion of his pending execution and he stills.

Judge really had sold him out as Sora's only human child this was punishment. Sanji swallows at his pending mortality. With no way to get a message out he was fucked. The Strawhats are looking desperately for their cook, the fleet they had amassed coming together to search when a video like Vegapunk's plays across the world. A news broadcast, a photo of a beaten Sanji, chained to the wall by his wrists and ankles and an announcement of the capture of Gol D. Sora's only living child and his pending execution. He wonders if this is how Ace felt.

Sanji tries to keep an eye on the battle but it quickly becomes a blur of spectacular powers clashing. It's spectacular and horrifying and Sanji yells for them to leave. There's shouts back, but he can't understand them over the sounds of the war. Then he's almost all alone on the platform as the higher ranks join into the battle in front of him. Then Buggy is there with Galdino just like at the Summit War and they're pulling Sanji along for escape.

It feels like a dream, his grandfather's crew and his captain and his crewmates coming to save him, his uncles and theirs. He's running and fighting as theirs shouts about getting him to a ship. Any ship. Just get him away. Just like at Marineford, Akainu is looking at Luffy in anger. Sanji remembers the scar and sees the punch and he can't stop himself just like Ace.

Maybe it's a Gol thing.

He shoves Luffy out of the way and there's pain. Burning, searing pain shooting up into his right shoulder that steals his breath in his shoulder as Luffy stares at him. Eyes wide then narrowing in pure wrath as he looks at the fleet admiral. Marco's in front of him suddenly with Robin as Shanks and Rayleigh rush past and Sanji looks.

Oh, Usopp is holding his arm.

Wait.

Usopp has his arm? He's like ten feet away. Sanji looks back at Marco as Hongo yells to get him to the Red Force and then they're hauling ass again. Sanji is getting kind of dizzy and Crocus is waiting for him. Sanji looks at him, having not seen him since they made it into the Grand Line and he looks properly horrified at the state of them. Sanji is rushed into the infirmary and maybe the shock finally hits, maybe there's a wave of Conquerors haki to lay him out, maybe it's blood loss, all he knows is that he blacks out.

He wakes up seas know how long later. Luffy is asleep on his legs, Sanji moves to pet his hair when he realizes his dominant hand is gone. Right. Usopp had it. Clearly he's going to need to relearn somethings as he pets Luffy with his left. It makes his captain blink and sit up and start yelling at him but honestly Sanji isn't listening. They both lived. Sanji just gives Luffy a tired smile because he's pretty doped up, understandably as others come in. Buggy looking the most upset while Rayleigh looks annoyed, Shanks follows with the some others while just having relief on his face.

"You all are the same." Buggy says with a glare. "I already called Zeff for you."

"Mm, thanks." Sanji mumbles while Rayleigh sighs and rubs his face and Shanks looks at his younger brother.

"So we owe Zeff but also need to take Germa out?" Shanks grins.

"Oh yeah, a lot. Since he didn't out me or Sanji." Buggy nods. "You got a place for the other kids though?" He asks and Beck's call of 'No!' from deck makes Shanks glare back through the door.

"I told you not to do that again." Luffy says to Sanji who blinks at him, still tired. So the cook just pats his head again.

"Get some rest, kid. You got a lot of people eager to meet ya." Rayleigh says. Sanji nods and even Luffy is pulled out of the room too to let the blond sleep and heal.

When Sanji finally comes on deck a few days later, there's loads of smiles and cheers and soft touches welcoming him back. There's a photo of Shanks and Sanji with stumps on display while Luffy yells at them. Buggy and Chopper harping on the cook while Rayleigh keeps planting kisses on Sanji's hair like he used to do to Sora. Sanji tells Marco his mom never moved on from him either and gets his hair ruffled and a sad smile from the Zoan. Franky shows him some plans for prosthetics and Sanji just asks for something with moving fingers and super plain. Franky calls him lame.

Still, he's alive and when there's news of the former Roger pirates and their brats raiding Germa, Sanji laughs. Even as Luffy parks himself under what's left of his right arm and wraps rubber limbs around him while he smokes at the Sunny's railing.

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